250 Miles Changes Everything | Nick Allen | Cocodona 250 Ultramarathon

Hey Nick, welcome to the podcast.

Last time we have talked and there is so much things that happened since we talked about your Sodor on a 125.

Yeah,

thanks for having me back.

Yeah.

Like I said, you know, last time we spoke, you just won Sotana 125 and you said that you made a decision to step up at Kokodana 250.

And now that you have actually experienced it, when you look at that version of yourself, when you finished 125 and won it, did you actually know what you signed up for?

Not really.

I watched the live stream for a few years and it really looked like a pretty amazing event.

And after doing the 125, you think about, wow, I now have to do twice that distance.

And You can't really prepare yourself, I think, for it until you get into it because there's going to be so many challenges and things that you may not have expected that you just can't even plan for.

So really the only way to prepare yourself is just to kind of go into it and have some faith, I guess.

What was 250 what you expected it to be?

Yeah, it was very, it was really hard.

It was the first time really going over that distance or doing that distance.

And so I knew, right, I had expected that the whole sleep deprivation and sleep would be a challenge.

And because that was something that I really hadn't experienced yet.

And I think looking back on it, that probably really was one of my biggest challenges, just because I never pushed my body that far, pushed for that long.

And so it was some new

territory for me.

And

you learn things about it and about yourself going there.

But I think having done it now, you do have a little more to look in and see and like kind of know what to expect.

So you can kind of hopefully manage those situations a little bit better.

Now you look at yourself, right? So you have done Tahoe 202 and then you did Kokoda 250.

Hey Nick, welcome to the podcast.

Last time we have talked and there is so much things that happened since we talked about your Sodor on a 125.

Yeah,

thanks for having me back.

Yeah.

Like I said, you know, last time we spoke, you just won Sotana 125 and you said that you made a decision to step up at Kokodana 250.

And now that you have actually experienced it, when you look at that version of yourself, when you finished 125 and won it, did you actually know what you signed up for?

Not really.

I watched the live stream for a few years and it really looked like a pretty amazing event.

And after doing the 125, you think about, wow, I now have to do twice that distance.

And You can't really prepare yourself, I think, for it until you get into it because there's going to be so many challenges and things that you may not have expected that you just can't even plan for.

So really the only way to prepare yourself is just to kind of go into it and have some faith, I guess.

What was 250 what you expected it to be?

Yeah, it was very, it was really hard.

It was the first time really going over that distance or doing that distance.

And so I knew, right, I had expected that the whole sleep deprivation and sleep would be a challenge.

And because that was something that I really hadn't experienced yet.

And I think looking back on it, that probably really was one of my biggest challenges, just because I never pushed my body that far, pushed for that long.

And so it was some new

territory for me.

And

you learn things about it and about yourself going there.

But I think having done it now, you do have a little more to look in and see and like kind of know what to expect.

So you can kind of hopefully manage those situations a little bit better.

Now you look at yourself, right? So you have done Tahoe 202 and then you did Kokoda 250.